Sentence examples for and become instead from inspiring English sources

But just when did attending a fashion show cease to be a pleasure and become instead a chore?

Consequently, her interpretations cease to simply be demonstrations of the subjectivity and instability of translation and become, instead, instrumental and crucial to the fate of all three characters.

Though Citkowitz writes in plain, straightforward prose — almost another language compared to Cheever's baroque, performative style — both stories examine the ways in which objects can lose their outward function and meaning and become, instead, storehouses of guilt and pain.

Perhaps, says Mr al-Hout, some such reason may be behind the "advice" given recently by Damascus to the PLO opposition groups to abandon the "armed struggle" and become instead political parties.But what does Mr Arafat hope to gain from reasserting his authority in the camps?

What Felix has in mind is a programme of moral and social reformation by which the working class will cease to hanker after social and material advancement and become instead a kind of moral yeast, capable of transforming society simply by being, to use the parlance of the day, "respectable".

There are stretches near my home in the West 100's that have left their prosaic, drugstore-infused selves behind and become instead beautiful sylvan boulevards, with trees lining both sides of the crowded sidewalk, sometimes two or three rows deep.

He stopped being a believing Muslim and became instead an apostate.

At that point, she had ceased being a subject of study and became instead a person in my life.

If she herself becomes mortal, then she loses her power of speech and becomes instead a spirit of death.

He said Memorial Day long ago stopped being a memorial, and became instead the front door to summer.

When I was inside the perimeter, the camp lost its generic-ness and became instead this particular Russian structure of its own.